The Guardian has this really important investigation today. But its framing gets one thing wrong. This is not about 'children', this is about girls.
It's vital that we name this, or we can't fight it.
The culture that turns kids into objects is the patriarchy.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.
'Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist who played a key role in exposing elements of fraud in Alzheimer’s research, said: “You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease. Biology doesn’t care.”'
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Wow. They’re so thick it’s almost impossible to credit.
Cat sitting on notebook.
“I’ll just check my notes”
“The fuck you will”
Is the Home Secretary's hypothesis that Yvette Cooper wouldn't be criticised if tabled the same asylum/settlement reforms?!
The personal characteristics of Nigel Farage/Zia Yusuf, Chris Philp/Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood/Starmer seem v marginal to who supports/opposes their immigration plans!
The toxic people who don't think Shabana Mahmood doesn't belong in this country are white racists, not white liberals
But white liberals - like the mixed race, Asian or black liberals - have just as much right to disagree with Shabana Mahmood as they do with Theresa May or Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf
When Trump loses power, his assets should be liquidated and returned to the American people.
SCENE: In a tobacconist's, 2079.
CUSTOMER: 20 Benson & Hedges, please.
SHOPKEEPER: You don't look 71 years old.
C: (uneasily) Well I am.
S: Got ID?
C: (resignedly) You got me. I'm only 70.
S: On your way.
C: I'll just get my mum to come in and buy them for me.
S: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
Yes! Christ, imagine - remove the 2 child limit and the overall cap at once, up taxes, adopt a humane and workable asylum system, tell the truth about the necessity of skilled migration, and put the breakdown of the welfare bill by age cohort onto billboards.
I await the breathless news commentary about the dramatic collapse in Reform UK support since November and what that means for the future of Nigel Farage as party leader going into the local elections...
any minute now...
Because remember, I just reported this a few weeks ago!
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Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
This month alone, the Trump admin has voted unanimously to exempt the oil and gas industry from Endangered Species Act requirements in the Gulf of Mexico, canceled a program helping farmers pursue conservation efforts, announced an Arctic drilling lease sale, and more. We're tracking these harms ⬇
"There is no Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, or Trump Organization in an era where white collar crime is prosecuted with anything close to the vigor of the lowest-level drug cases in a major US city."
An excellent piece about the total collapse of Florida oranges. If you've read John McPhee's Oranges you kind of have to read this to see how it turned out (extremely badly).
slate.com/business/202...
Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.
Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
It is possible to think that this whole undignified Mandelson vetting debacle does not reflect well on the PM at all, while also thinking that another leadership contest is literally the last thing anybody needs right now.
Not much political judgement going on here if Isabel Oakeshott does not realise that Farage & Tice are senior members of the British establishment. Relevant here is that Oakeshott is the partner of Richard Tice jumping to the defence of Tice & his tax evasion.
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
